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House of the Ancients and Other Stories

House of the Ancients and Other Stories

Clifford Garstang

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Press 53
Año de edición:
2020
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Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9781950413188
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Nobody’s perfect, but some of us—mostly men—are blinded by our hubris and baser urges. Judgment is impeded. Mistakes are made. The stories in House of the Ancients and Other Stories, many of them set outside the U.S., explore some of the consequences of these common failings.

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